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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bob Dylan sells entire song catalog to Universal in blockbuster deal [View all]
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/music/bob-dylan-sells-publishing.html..."On Monday, the Universal Music Publishing Group announced that it had signed a landmark deal to purchase Dylans entire songwriting catalog including world-changing classics like Blowin in the Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin and Like a Rolling Stone in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of the music publishing rights of a single act.
The deal, which covers Dylans entire career, from his earliest songs to the tunes on his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, was struck directly with Dylan, 79, who has long controlled the majority of his own songwriting copyrights.
The price was not disclosed, but is estimated at more than $300 million.
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Dylans deal includes 100 percent of his rights for all the songs of his catalog, including both the income he receives as a songwriter and his control of each songs copyright. In exchange for its payment to Dylan, Universal, a division of the French media conglomerate Vivendi, will collect all future income from the songs."...(more)
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It is about the licensing. That's where the money is. Commercials and film/TV money
TeamPooka
Dec 2020
#55
You can prepare to hear a bunch of Dylan songs in commercials in the upcoming years.
aidbo
Dec 2020
#5
Good point. Jointly inheriting the catalog could set up conflict and even lawsuits among the heirs,
Tanuki
Dec 2020
#19
Have to agree. All his songs sounds the same and they all sound like he is singing them through his
IsItJustMe
Dec 2020
#30
The Lennon/McCartney catalog was sold to Universal a decade ago for around $1billion
Fiendish Thingy
Dec 2020
#20
Dylan retains the rights to any future songs, according to the linked OP article
Tanuki
Dec 2020
#25
I doubt there is much interest in the future stuff from a publishing perspective...
cbdo2007
Dec 2020
#27